Friday, January 10, 2014

Borja & Elvis managed to find a trader buying Bitcoin in South Africa! That means that the Bitcoin Africa tour is completed quite succesfully. Bitcoin knowledge was spread to many new countries. Exchanges were made at least in South Africa, Namibia, Togo, Morocco, Cameroon and others.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

I've just poured some well-deserved love into the LocalBitcoins API, bumping it to version 3.0. Here's the beef (change log):

- Trade contact messaging, both reading and writing are now supported by the official API
- Trade contacts can be canceled and disputed when eligible
- Together with mark payment complete support recently these features complete the actions that can be done with existing contacts
- Ability to create new contacts with API is coming soon!
- Wallet API support. Balance can be read and recent transactions can be inspected. Bitcoins can be sent from the wallet using a special permission. Existing access tokens will not have send access, but new tokens can request this permission from the user.
- Ad editing API now has equivalent fields to the website form. There is a new ad creation API.
- Authentication code was overhauled